The Media Loves Argonotes

Mike Beamish of the Vancouver Sun in an
article after the Lions edged the Argos 54-4 on August 24, 2000 wrote:
"The most impressive thing about the Argos these days is their kickin'
half-time band." Thanks, Mike! You mean us, right? Even though,
technically, um, we don't actually play at half-time, but it was us you were
talking about, eh? What? You were talking about the high-school band at
half-time? Oh.

Dave Naylor, North America's greatest radio feature reporter, prepared
a piece on the band that aired on National Public Radio's Only A Game as well as on the CBC, and around the world on Armed
Forces Radio. Apparently all other possible sports stories have already been
done.

Peter Kuitenbrouwer of the Financial
Post, Canada's greatest magazine writer, wrote about Toronto's
thrilling 27-1 victory over Saskatchewan in the FP on August 30, 1997, and
mentioned the band thusly:

``Everybody's so complacent'', says [Saskatchewan fan Marty] Antaya, as the brass
Argonotes band strikes up, trying to drum up a little enthusiasm."

This marks what we believe to be the first appearance by the Band in a major
financial publication. (Attention Report on Business reporters: give us
a call.)

Talk 640 Radio's Bob
Bratina, Canada's greatest living broadcaster, interviewed us for his
Argo Bounce feature in July 1997. Thanks, Bob! (Bob doubles on the clarinet and
we hope he'll join us for a rendition of the Clarinet Polka some time
soon.) Bob and play-by-play man Pete Martin have even been known
to fill pre-game-show lulls with extensive interviews with and performances by
the band, which proves you can put just about anything on radio, especially
when it's Canadian content.

Bill Lawrence,
Canada's greatest living TV weatherperson, graciously allowed a band which
suddenly showed up out of nowhere, as if somehow they just happened to know a
live television broadcast was about to take place, to appear in his
on-the-street weather report on July 24, 1998 on
CBLT-TV. We believe that the 10 seconds or so that CBLT showed of the
band performing Argos Rule the CFL may be a new world record as the
longest appearance by a CFL band on a weather-based television segment. This
year, anyway. In the east division.

Josh Rubin, Canada's greatest living sportswriter, mentioned Argonotes
and this web page in his
SportsNet column in the
Toronto Star, November 6, 1996. Alas, you can't find it on their site
any more, but we saved a
copy.